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Ocean Sea
Ocean Sea
Author: Alessandro Baricco, Alastair McEwen (Translator)
With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern literature. — In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375703959
ISBN-10: 0375703950
Publication Date: 6/27/2000
Pages: 256
Rating:
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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4.3 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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Well written and interesting format translated from Italian. Soothing, picturesque and inventive.
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hippysilverware avatar reviewed Ocean Sea on + 7 more book reviews
It's a nice read. A little tedious in some places, but pretty and whimsical in the rest. The only way I can think to describe this book is "light". It's almost like a conglomeration of short bed time stories for adults that were taken apart and then neatly put back together to make a book.


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